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November 13, 2004

SleepLab

After around 10 years of not sleeping the entire night through once, and after several years of friends telling me I ought to get a CPAP machine (basically an air pump that blows up your windpipe like a balloon, so it doesn't collapse and block your airway when you're asleep), I finally got into a Sleep Study a couple weeks ago. I don't know why, but CPAP machines require a prescription. And to get that, you have to do a Sleep Study (unless you find a doc who'll just do it for you). The sleep study is actually pretty interesting though --- here's the three sets of graphs they gave me (if you click on them, it will take you to a readable image with a discussion of what it all means):

Normal "light" sleep:

REM sleep:

Summary of the whole night:

And finally, me, wired up (or at least as much of me as you really want to see!):

Posted by abatie at November 13, 2004 08:01 PM
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